UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA

"ENUGU STATE SECRETARIAT COlVIPLEX"

( '\ ~T LTDY OF THE F USIO;\! OF ARCHITECT URE AND HIGH TE CH.)

lVl.Sc (ARCH) THESIS REPORT

BY

AKWUOBI ELIZABETH OGECH UKWU

PG/M.Sc/09/53754

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,

FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES.

UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ENUGU CAMPUS

MARCH, 2013
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA

ABSTRACT

A state secretariat is the office complex where the administrative bureaucrats of the state
government functions; it houses all the ministries of the state and some government
agencies. Secretariat buildings, once seen primarily as a symbol of state power, must now
be adaptable over time, flexible in use, easy to maintain, accessibly located and
ecologically sound. They must also provide users with an effective and enjoyable
environment. Technology, globalization and demographics are revolutionizing the way
offices in a secretariat building are used. The issue of space has been replaced in High
Tech architecture by the more technical issue of flexibility. High tech has its own rules and
architects and designers are bound to follow them.As a result of this global trend and the
use of secretariat building in defining a state, this project therefore will focus on achieving
the above stated issues in the design of the secretariat complex for Enugu state to be sited
in the state capital. The design was done to solve rigidity in adaptability of spaces and
unbefitting building appearance through the study of the fusion of architecture and high
tech. The IFD (Industrialised, Flexible and Demountable) Building Systems stands' as the
key method that was used in solving the architectural problems associated with the design.
Originally IFD is a Dutch innovation program, challenging the designers to improve their
overall building design strategies . INDUSTRIALISED, to amortise a process capable of
simplifying the design and reaching a high level of quality (end use), FLEXIBLE, to
accommodate functional changes over time and in the space without destroying partitions
or/and exterior walls; and DEMOUNTABLE, to meet the needs for reconfiguration or even
relocation without demolition. The end result would be, the flexibility to accommodate
continual change needs which was "built in" to the building design from the outset and to
be respected in subsequent alterations, a truly sustainable office environment which
focuses not just on a building's fabric and systems, but increasingly on the accommodation
needs of its occupiers and the evolutional requirements of their roles, successive users
adapting the building to their specific' needs, and the First Impressions ideology of
improving the appearance of our public spaces by designing a building with an
aesthetically appealing outlook befitting the state.

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